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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HORACE KOEUHLIN, OF LOWAGH, BADEN, GERMANY.

MANUFACTURE OF COLORS OR DYE-STUFFS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 253,721, dated February14, 1882.

' Application filed December 16, 1881. (No specimens.)

ethylaniline, or their salts, or theirsulpho conjugate acids, or thechloroquinonimides on tannin, or on principles analogous to tannin, suchas cachoutannic, catechnic, morintannic, quercitannic, quinotannic,caffeetannic acids, or their salts, or on the tannin of dividivi, or ofsumac, or on gallic acid or its salts, or ethers.

To obtain one of these coloring-matters I operate in the followingmanner: I heat in a bath-pan a solution, either alcoholic, acetate, oraqueous, of hydrochlorate of nitroso-dimethylaniline and gallic acid.The product of the reaction is diluted with water slightly alkaline andprecipitated by a weak acid-acetic acid, for instanceand filtered.

Other coloring-matters can be made by similar reactions. The products,as well as the method of producing the same, constitute part of theinvention, which comprises therefore the preparation and thecoloring-matters above mentioned.

I claim- The improvementin the manufacture of coloring-inatters,consisting in the production of violet coloring-matters by the action ofnitroso derivatives of the tertiary amines on tannin, or equivalentreaction, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

HORACE KOEOHLIN.

Wittiesses:

R. LUssY,

EUG. ROESLER.

